The following is an excerpt from the interview.

Deutsche Welle: In recent time, the US president has been criticizing Nigeria. How seriously do you counter the allegation by Donald Trump that your government is not doing enough against radical Islamists killing Christians in Nigeria? 

Yusuf Tuggar: When you talk about herders and farmers, this is not some biblical conflict. It's not Cain and Abel. It's not that all the farmers are one religion and all the herders are the other. Nigeria is much, much more complex than that.

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